Strategies to Support Families Experiencing Difficult Circumstances

One of the most
challenging tasks for many early childhood providers is how to support families
who are facing tough, difficult issues like death of a parent, PTSD, abuse, and
neglect. Not only do these issues impact the family’s overall functioning and well being
and the quality of parents’ interactions with their young children but they
also affect the relationship between the family and the early childhood
providers (e.g., missed appointments and adversarial interactions). Dr. Carol
Trivette will cap her yearlong webinar series sharing resources and discussing
evidence-based practices that providers can implement when they are working
with military families in particular, who are facing difficult situations.
Participants are encouraged to engage and share challenges, resources, and
successes they have experienced working with families of young children with
disabilities.

Objectives:

Gain awareness of a variety of difficult
circumstances facing military families some of which may also be true of
civilian families as well

Discover resources and strategies to strengthen
and improve their interactions with families facing difficult circumstances

Learn about the impact of difficult
circumstances on family functioning and child brain development

How to obtain CEUs:

The following states have agreed to recognize the CE credits we offer: Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia

Carol Trivette, PhD earned her degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Child Development and Family Relations. Her research interests focus on identifying evidence-based practices for working with children and families in the areas of responsive parental interactions with their children with disabilities, family-centered practices and family support, and the development of tools and scales to support the implementation of evidence-based practices with fidelity. She is currently an Associate Professor at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.